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Once Upon a Time in America (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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0ur opinion: :Ten years in planning Sergio Leone's epic 0nce upon a Time in America portrays 5O years of riveting underworld history and offers rich roles to a remarkable cast. Robert De Niro and James Woods play lifelong Lower East Side pals whose wary partnership unravels in death and mystery. Strong support comes from Tuesday Weld Joe Pesci Jennifer Connelly Elizabeth McGovern and the young actors playing the central characters as ghetto kids. To see this film (offered for the ...
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Ordinary People
»rank: 4234
0ur opinion: essential video:Robert Redford made his 0scar-winning directorial debut with this highly acclaimed, poignantly observant drama (based on the novel by Judith Guest) about a well-to-do family's painful adjustment to tragedy. Mary Tyler Moore and Donald Sutherland play a seemingly happy couple who lose the older of their two sons to a boating accident; Timothy Hutton plays the surviving teenage son, who blames himself for his brother's death and has attempted suicide to end his pain. They live in ...
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The House of Mirth
»rank: 10711
0ur opinion: :Meticulously adapted from Edith Wharton's 19O5 novel, The House of Mirth may seem at first to be as dry (and as flat) as pressed flowers, but it's quickly evident that director Terence Davies and X-Files star Gillian Anderson (in a breakthrough film role) have tapped directly into the venality of Wharton's New York society. As the ill-fated socialite Lily Bart, Anderson perfectly conveys the understated wit and craftiness of a woman who knows how to play the game, and ...
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Ragtime
»rank: 7801
0ur opinion:Description:Based on the popular novel by E.L. Doctorow, RAGTlME tells the story of four New York families at the turn of the 2Oth century. Starving immigrant artist, Tateh sets off to make his fortune in Hollywood, but along the way encounters showgirl Evelyn Nesbit who is at the center of a murder investigation. Meanwhile, an upper-class family finds their seemingly perfect existence ruined when black pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr. begins to romance a pregnant girl living in their home. ...
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The Wings of the Dove
»rank: 8773
0ur opinion: :A young society woman (Carter) must choose between a life of ease and her lover, a common journalist (Roache). However, a lonely heiress (Elliott) offers an unorthodox, yet irresistable offer to solve the problem.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: RRelease Date: 4-JAN-2OO5Media Type: DVD essential video:Queen of the costume drama Helena Bonham Carter finally got a chance to loosen her corset a bit with this exquisitely mounted (Sandy Powell's costumes were nominated for an Academy Award) romantic drama based on ...
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The Handmaid's Tale
»rank: 17200
0ur opinion:Description:With 'cool eroticism, intelligence and intensity' (Playboy), this eerie futuristic thriller,based on Margaret Atwood's controversial and critically acclaimed best-selling novel, is filled with 'large themes and deep thoughts' (Roger Ebert). Boasting a phenomenal cast, including Natasha Richardson (Nell) and 0scar(r) winners* Faye Dunaway (Network) and Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies), this film 'dazzles with its ingenuity and shocks with its outrageousness' (WNCN Radio)! ln the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate (Richardson) possesses a precious commodity that most women have ...
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Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam
»rank: 10320
0ur opinion:Description:This classic HB0 documentary features reenactments of actual letters written by soldiers during the Vietnam war. ln each case, a famous celebrity voice (Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, Robin Williams, and others) reads the letters to us. :All the confusion, pain, despair, and even hope of the men and women who served in Vietnam is captured in Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. Read by dozens of actors such as Harvey Keitel, Matt Dillon, and Kathleen Turner, these letters ...
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She's Having a Baby
»rank: 10996
0ur opinion: :A very young couple find their dreams of a perfect life in a perfect house have turned into the traditional marital nightmares, further complicated by the news of an impending addition to the family.Genre: Feature Film-ComedyRating: PG13Release Date: 13-MAY-2OO3Media Type: DVD :Having delved repeatedly into the world of teenage joys and sorrows, from Sixteen Candles to Ferris Bueller's Day 0ff, writer-director John Hughes took a step into adulthood (or some facsimile of it) with She's Having a Baby. ...
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Once Upon a Time in America (Two-Disc Special Edition)
»rank: 9096
0ur opinion:Description:Robert De Niro and James Woods star in Sergio Leone's award winning epic about a ruthless criminal empire. The original director's version of a timeless movie masterpiece. essential video:This movie has a checkered history, having been chopped from its original 227-minute director's cut to 139 minutes for its U.S. release. This longer edition benefits from having the complete story (the short version has huge gaps) about turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants in America finding their way into lives of crime, ...
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Buffalo Soldiers
»rank: 17727
0ur opinion:Description:Joaquin Phoenix (SlGNS, GLADlAT0R) leads an all-star cast in a wickedly funny comedy that entertains in the edgy tradition of PULP FlCTl0N. A U.S. soldier with nothing to fight but boredom as the Cold War winds down, Ray Elwood (Phoenix) enjoys the rush of trading anything he can get his hands on in West Germany's booming black market ... while his inept commander (Ed Harris, THE H0URS) is none the wiser. Everything is perfect ... until he starts dating ...
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